2006

The First ReviewMe.com Review Request

November 20, 2006 Blogging

I’ve mentioned before that I like the concept of ReviewMe.com. It provides bloggers with another stream of income and it allows advertisers to get an unabashed review of their product. I was just informed by email in bold yellow font, “A review has been ordered to be placed on your blog Real Estate Investing for [...]

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Giant List of Website Advertising Networks – Make Money Online

November 19, 2006 Advertising

Making money with your website is easy, provided you’ve got good content and some traffic. I wanted to create a list of the various advertising networks you can use to generate some cash from your site or blog. Top-Tier Pay Per Click – PPC Google AdSense Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) Microsoft AdCenter – Advertisers only??? [...]

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Net News Linkfest

November 17, 2006 Blogging

Brian at SEOMoz tells us that meta-tags are making a comeback. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have all agreed on a new xml sitemap protocol for their search engines. Visit Sitemaps.org for more info. Jaimie at SEO Egghead gives us 6 Questions To Weed Out Charlatan SEOs. I might add “What are social networks and how [...]

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Damn, Microsoft Outlook Really Sucks!

November 16, 2006 Commentary

I cannot explain how pissed off I am at my Microsoft Outlook. I have been battling for 40 hours now to get my email working properly but leave it to Gates & Co. to screw something else up . . . The Beginning This problem all started when I decided that it was time to [...]

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The Four Phases of Web Success

November 15, 2006 Blogging

Internet people use measures of success that are somewhat different then those of common-folk. We’re not concerned about having the biggest house or the fanciest car in the neighborhood. We think about things like bandwidth, unique users, page views, reach, AdSense revenues, and other mundane things like number of servers we’ve got. I’ve broken down [...]

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Increasing AdSense Revenues by Eliminating MFA and Low Paying Sites

November 14, 2006 Advertising

There are quite a few ways to increase your revenues using Google Adsense ads, and we’re going to focus on one in particular. First, I wanted to mention two articles by Darren at Problogger, How to Position AdSense Ads and How to Design Your AdSense Ads. Both articles look at place and layout of your [...]

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Just a Few Internet Entrepreneurs Who Are Making Tons of Money Online

November 13, 2006 Advertising

One of my new favorite bloggers, John Chow, author of the internet’s biggest google whores, recently inspired a take off, the internet’s biggest affiliate marketing whores over at StrayGeek. What’s so special about all of these “whores” that people need to make lists of them? They are some of the leaders in making money online [...]

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Exploring Wikis and E-Commerce

November 13, 2006 eCommerce

Building a Wiki Site Last month I mentioned that I was looking into setting up a Wiki and that I had chosen MediaWiki to do so. Since then, I’ve set up my first wiki (it is a work in progress), a real estate wiki. The set up was really easy – like most scripts, the [...]

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Easily Track Your AdSense Revenue

November 12, 2006 Google AdSense

While many of the experienced webmasters out there probably know about this, I wanted to share this with the newbies. There is a great plug-in for the Firefox browser that allows you to easily track your Google AdSense revenue without a lot of effort. The Adsense Notifier simply shows your adsense stats on the status [...]

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Estimating your PPC and Earnings with the AdCalc

November 11, 2006 Website Tools

I found a great little tool earlier today on Modern Life is Rubbish, the AdCalc. This simple tool allows publishers to calculate approximately they are getting paid per click. It will also let you “find out how much you’re making per week, month, and even per year – assuming your traffic remains steady and the [...]

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Easy Google and Yahoo Sitemaps for your Website

November 11, 2006 Website Tools

I just wanted to share a tool that I’ve known about for months, but just started to use. XML-Sitemaps offers both free and paid sitemap generation. I’ve tried the free service in the past, but it is limited by the number of pages it will crawl. On the other hand the paid unlimited service — [...]

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WordPress Blogging Tip – Changing Feed From Summary to Full Text

November 10, 2006 Blogging Tutorials

It is funny how things work. I’ve been blogging for well over a year now, but I went crazy yesterday trying to figure out how to do the simplest thing to my new blog. I wanted to change the feed output from summary to full text, but for the life of me couldn’t figure out [...]

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New Blog Advertising Platform ReviewMe.com Now Live!

November 9, 2006 Advertising

The site that was promised to us from two influential people in the blogosphere, Andy Hagans of Text Link Ads and Aaron Wall of SEO Book, ReviewMe, is now live! The announcement came in a simple email: “Hey Guys, Reviewme.com has launched. Go check it out now! – Roy” So what is all the excitement [...]

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How to Start Blogging for Money

November 8, 2006 Blogging

If anyone is going to take you seriously as a blogger, you are going to have to have one key thing — your own domain name. While using sites like Blogger and WordPress make it easy to blog, to put forward a professional appearance and have greater flexibility with your blog, you’re going to need [...]

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Azoogle Ads Version 2.0 Launched

November 8, 2006 Affiliate Marketing

After waiting for some time, we’re finally blessed with the new version of AzoogleAds “2.0″. Shoemoney posted about users first impressions of the new website and reporting system, while the Earners Blog does a great indepth review of this new release. I’m not yet an affiliate, but I filled out their application (like 8 pages [...]

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